In this secret filming, an abortion counsellor claims that women who have
terminations are 25 percent less likely to be able to carry a pregnancy to
full term in the future

A counsellor at a Crisis Pregnancy Centre (CPC) in London - part of a network of clinics that provide advice to women considering a termination - was recorded making these claims last month.

At the London CPC, named the Central London Women’s Centre (CLWC), a reporter was told by an adviser that an abortion carried various “risks”, including the possibility of “sterility”. The counsellor also told the reporter that infection was “quite common”.

“As with any operation you know you are introducing something from outside the body into the inside of the body and there’s always a risk but with abortion there’s also a particular risk of, obviously the instruments that are used are sharp and they cut the wall of the womb.

“I mean one of the studies; the study that we tend to use is, it says that you’re 25 percent less likely to be able to carry a future pregnancy to term”, said the counsellor, who gave her name as Annabel.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said the risk of being left infertile was "very, very low”. Kate Guthrie, a spokesman for the College and a consultant gynaecologist for Hull and East Riding, said that because women were “always” screened before an abortion and “every women also gets a routine course of antibiotics after the abortion” the risk of infection was also low.